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Medieval Antisemitism?

Medieval Antisemitism?

Soyer, François

Paperback

Series: Past Imperfect

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 164189007X
ISBN13: 9781641890076
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Published: Nov 1 2019
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
Is it possible to talk about antisemitism in the Middle Ages before the appearance of scientific concepts of race? In this work, François Soyer examines the nature of medieval anti-Jewish sentiment and violence. Analysing developments in Europe between 1100 and 1500, he points to the tensions in medieval anti-Jewish thought amongst thinkers who hoped to convert Jews and blamed Talmudic scholarship for their obduracy and yet who also, conversely, often essentialized Judaism to the point that it transformed into the functional equivalent of the modern concept of race. In a nuanced manner, he argues that, just as many historians now refer to racisms in the plural, we should not consider antisemitism as a monolithic concept but accept the existence of independent historical meanings and thus of antisemitisms (plural), including medieval antisemitism as distinct from anti-Judaism.

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